Chapter Summaries

After the four cities’ refugees reached Kyoto, Song Ankang helped protect the survivors and eased their food crisis, strengthening his reputation as Tang Batian. The Tang Family and Song’s Workshop benefited from his aid, though some Tang Family leaders again complained about Song Ankang’s control of the workshop’s profits.

• People believed the Nine Peaks Sword God was northeast of An City and moved toward the White Jade Mulberry Forest to seek his protection.
• Song Ankang learned that the four cities had coordinated their escape toward Kyoto, with some elderly and weak residents sacrificing themselves to hold back the Demonic Creatures and Ghosts.
• Song Ankang and Kyoto’s defenders helped more than three million refugees reach the area, while only a little over a hundred thousand died along the way.
• Kyoto began rationing food, so Song Ankang sold hunted Demonic Creatures’ and Ghosts’ corpses cheaply and arranged food gathering, work relief, and aid through Song’s Workshop and the Tang Family.
• Song Ankang supplied food under the identity of Tang Batian, making the Tang Family Old Ancestor famous and raising the standing of the Tang Family and Song’s Workshop.
• Some Tang Family higher-ups complained that Song Ankang kept most of Song’s Workshop’s benefits, and he ignored their grumbling.

Song Ankang searched for a chance to strike the demonic creatures and ghosts threatening Kyoto, then rushed to investigate a massacre near the White Jade Mulberry Forest. As he tracked the culprit, five Peak Great God-level enemies ambushed him together, forcing him to unleash the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique.

• Song Ankang continued hunting Lesser Gods and Middle Gods while the demonic creatures and ghosts outside Kyoto grew more cautious and joined forces.
• A Lesser Demon God attacked disaster victims near the White Jade Mulberry Forest, killing tens of thousands in retaliation for Song Ankang's earlier slaughter of its kind.
• Song Ankang reached the massacre site and used the Netherworld Divine Eye to track the fleeing Lesser Demon God, intending to protect the nearby forest and its remaining residents.
• Five concealed True Soul Threads signaled five Peak Great God-level demonic creatures and ghosts to attack Song Ankang as he investigated.
• The five enemies surrounded Song Ankang and unleashed their attacks, so he activated the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique and increased his strength more than fivefold.

Song Ankang escaped an ambush by five peak great god-level Demonic Creatures and Ghosts, then used the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique to launch a counterattack. He enslaved the Cherry Blossom Demon God and left the Female Demon Spider as his next target.

• Five peak great god-level Demonic Creatures and Ghosts ambushed Song Ankang near White Jade Mulberry Forest, but he broke through their blockade and fled toward Kyoto An City.
• The five attackers believed Song Ankang had used the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique to escape and left to prepare for their attack on An City.
• Song Ankang judged the Cherry Blossom Demon God and the Female Demon Spider weaker than expected, then went to Cherry Blossom Mountain with Goddess Tsukuyomi, Snow Woman, and the Water Qilin.
• Song Ankang's three divine servants ambushed the Cherry Blossom Demon God and weakened its true soul while it entered its formation.
• Song Ankang used Imperial Order to seize control of the Cherry Blossom Demon God's true soul and make it his servant.

Song Ankang used the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique and his servants to capture five peak Great God-level Demonic Creatures and Ghosts. After the last Terror Knight spread word that he was enslaving his own kind, Song Ankang looted and settled his new servants before returning to the Tang Family Mansion.

• Song Ankang enslaved the Cherry Blossom Demon God and learned how the ambushers had found him, along with details about the Female Demon Spider and the Ten Thousand Year Ice Silkworm.
• Song Ankang infiltrated the Myriad Silk Cave with his servants and enslaved the Female Demon Spider.
• Song Ankang tracked down and defeated the Ten Thousand Year Ice Silkworm in its snow cavern.
• Song Ankang ambushed the two Terror Knights, enslaving both, though the surviving brother sent news of the attack before being captured.
• Song Ankang looted his five new servants, arranged their affairs, and returned to the Tang Family Mansion, finding no suitable divine artifacts among their treasures.

Song Ankang enslaved eighteen Great God-level Demonic Creatures and Ghosts around Kyoto, filling the capacity of his True Soul Sea and quietly restoring his control over the area. He then used intelligence gathered through his servants to capture and devour Lesser God- and Middle God-level targets, rapidly advancing his cultivation and skills.

• Song Ankang led more than ten peak Divine Servants on campaigns and enslaved Great God-level Demonic Creatures and Ghosts around Kyoto.
• After reaching eighteen Great God servants, Song Ankang released Pen Immortal, Curse Well, Black Mountain Old Demon, and the others after erasing their memories of him.
• Song Ankang suppressed the Terror Knight’s rumors and used his eighteen servants to control the region within a thousand miles of Kyoto without exposing his identity.
• Song Ankang gathered intelligence on Lesser God- and Middle God-level Demonic Creatures and Ghosts, then captured and devoured them to improve his cultivation, aptitude, and skills.
• Song Ankang’s Way of Formations advanced toward the level of a Seventh-Rank Mid-Grade Divine Formation Master.

Song Ankang broke through the bottleneck between the Manifestation Realm and the Possession Realm after carefully striking the dam with his Sacred Heart True Soul. He survived the Heaven and Earth Fire and strengthened his true soul, though it did not reach the Body-Snatching Realm.

• Song Ankang advanced to the extreme of the Manifestation Realm after devouring a Demonic Beast comparable to a Possession Realm Great God.
• Song Ankang returned to the Training Room at the Tang Family Mansion, where eighteen peak Great God-level servants guarded him as he awaited the backlash.
• Song Ankang used divine pills to strengthen his Sacred Heart True Soul and repeatedly struck the bottleneck dam until cracks spread across it.
• Song Ankang replenished his true soul power with divine pills and Divine Medicine before the bottleneck dam collapsed.
• Song Ankang endured and guided the Heaven and Earth Fire as it tempered his Sacred Heart True Soul, then watched it dissipate before his soul could rise another level.

After Song Ankang’s Sacred Heart True Soul broke through, his strength and comprehension rose, placing him among the Human Race’s strongest experts. He hunted Demonic Creatures and Ghosts around Kyoto to keep advancing while concealing his campaign from both their kind and the Human Race.

• Song Ankang’s Sacred Heart True Soul surpassed two feet, increasing his power and expanding the limits of his body-refining and energy-refining cultivation.
• Song Ankang considered how the Emperor’s Secret Technique and Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique were constrained by the Human Race’s limits, while their side effects could still help him advance.
• Song Ankang’s comprehension more than doubled after he devoured Seventh-Grade Demonic Creatures and Ghosts, reaching a level that helped him cultivate and notice flaws in martial arts and secret techniques.
• Song Ankang continued cultivating the Sea Absorbing Sacred Heart Curse and searched for other techniques that could improve his comprehension.
• Song Ankang hunted Seventh-Grade Demonic Creatures and Ghosts around Kyoto, occasionally targeting capable Eighth-Grade ones for their skills and experience.
• Song Ankang directed his eighteen peak divine servants to hide his hunts and suppressed information among the Human Race to keep his prey from fleeing or retaliating.

Song Ankang strengthened his secret power network around Kyoto, using the city’s crisis to capture demons and ghosts while keeping its residents safe and supplied. News then revealed that Lou Guangzhi had deliberately abandoned the Merfolk War Front to destroy Merman forces and establish a stronger defense at the Huafeng War Front.

• Song Ankang controlled more than ninety percent of the Great God-level demons and ghosts around Kyoto and expanded his network across the region.
• Song Ankang used Kyoto’s divine artifacts as bait to draw in more Seventh-Grade demons and ghosts, while the Tang Family Old Ancestor supplied food and water to stabilize the population.
• Song Ankang relied on his eighteen peak God-servants to manage his growing territory and began expanding his network for resources and intelligence.
• Song Ankang learned that Lou Guangzhi had evacuated the eastern region’s people and resources before using the Merfolk War Front as a trap against the Merman Race.
• Lou Guangzhi established the more defensible Huafeng War Front in the Huafeng Mountain Range, preserving the Human Race’s eastern population and inflicting heavy losses on the Merman Race.
• Song Ankang suspected that reports of the Merfolk War Front’s fall had concealed Lou Guangzhi’s deliberate strategy.

Song Ankang learned that Lou Guangzhi had secretly formed the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad to hunt the Demonic Creatures and Ghosts emerging across the Xia Kingdom. After the squad’s operations were exposed, its successful campaign helped restore order, while Song Ankang continued cultivating and reached the limits of his body with the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique.

• Song Ankang learned from Zhang Xin Fang that Lou Guangzhi had secretly assembled a hunting squad to target hidden Seventh-Grade Demonic Creatures and Ghosts across the Xia Kingdom.
• Song Ankang confirmed that the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad had secretly killed nearly a hundred enemies in just over two months, easing the pressure on the Human Race.
• Song Ankang cultivated the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique to the Perfection Realm, but its power could only raise his essence, energy, and spirit to about five times their normal level.
• After the squad had hunted nearly two hundred enemies, its operations were exposed, and the Demonic Creatures and Ghosts retreated or fled, restoring basic order across the Xia Kingdom.
• Song Ankang learned that the squad had nine God-level Human Race ancestors, including a peak God-level expert from the Heaven-Human War Front.

Song Ankang learned that his hunting had surpassed the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad’s, and Kyoto began to recover as Demonic Creatures and Ghosts retreated. Then Anomaly God Furi Mountain attacked the Imperial City, leaving Song Ankang to rush toward a battle that threatened the Secret Treasury and the Human Race’s survival.

• Song Ankang realized that he had enslaved and killed nearly as many Seventh-Grade Demonic Creatures and Ghosts as the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad, and far more Great God-level ones.
• As news of the squad’s successes spread, Demonic Creatures and Ghosts withdrew from Kyoto and nearby settlements, bringing disaster victims hope of returning home.
• A thunderous roar shook An City, and Song Ankang saw the Imperial City rise into the air amid lava and flames.
• Song Ankang sent his divine servants to protect Anxuan Residence, Song's Workshop, and Tang Family Mansion, then transformed into the Nine Peaks Sword God and rushed to the Imperial City.
• Anomaly God Furi Mountain battered Zhang Xin Fang, Wang Xin Jing, Ding Song He, and the other defenders while they used the Imperial City and Kyoto Divine Formation Groups to protect the Secret Treasury.
• Song Ankang recognized Furi Mountain as a Half-step True Immortal who had betrayed several factions, and realized it had secretly prepared its attack on the Imperial City.

Song Ankang, fighting as the Nine Peaks Sword God, battled the Half-step True Immortal Furi Mountain above An City while the city’s Divine Formation Group weakened the monster. Furi Mountain’s attack on the Secret Treasury was thwarted, and it prepared to withdraw after losing the advantage.

• Song Ankang confronted Furi Mountain with Five Fists Combined and matched its magma attack, while Zhang Xin Fang, Wang Xin Jing, Ding Song He, and the others asked him to defend the Secret Treasury.
• Furi Mountain unleashed the Fire Emperor Spear Technique, and Song Ankang countered with the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture and Six Fists Combined, shattering its magma spears.
• Furi Mountain attacked with the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Pearls, but Zhang Xin Fang, Wang Xin Jing, and the others activated An City’s Divine Formation Group and bound the fire dragons and Furi Mountain with chains.
• Song Ankang took advantage of the formation weakening Furi Mountain, scattered its fire dragons, and hammered its body until the monster fell into the disadvantage.
• Furi Mountain realized it could not breach the Secret Treasury with Song Ankang blocking its way and prepared to leave the Imperial City for another opportunity.

Song Ankang used a hidden ambush to break Furi Mountain’s defenses and enslave the Half-step True Immortal while Furi Mountain’s eruption threatened An City. After leaving the Imperial City with his new servant, Song Ankang discovered that Furi Mountain’s combat power was nearly five times his own and learned more about its powerful Anomaly lineage.

• Furi Mountain unleashed Volcanic Eruption, forcing Zhang Xin Fang, Wang Xin Jing, and the others to divert most of the Divine Formation Group’s power to protect An City.
• Song Ankang sent more than ten peak Greater God servants to ambush Furi Mountain, breach its true-soul defenses, and let his Imperial Order enslave it.
• Song Ankang concealed the ambush and Furi Mountain’s enslavement while the Imperial Court drove the apparent attacker away, though the battle badly damaged the Imperial City’s and Kyoto’s Divine Formation Groups.
• Song Ankang left the Imperial City with Furi Mountain and found that its overall combat power was nearly five times his own.
• Furi Mountain explained that it belonged to the Mountain Race, a Heaven Race branch of the Anomaly Race, and that its energy-refinement cultivation had reached the Half-step True Immortal racial limit.

Song Ankang secured Anomaly God Furi Mountain as his servant and gained powerful Divine Artifacts, becoming the strongest being among the Human Race. He met Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing after they requested an urgent discussion about Kyoto’s survival.

• The chapter explained how heavenly tribulation marked the path to becoming a True Immortal and established that Furi Mountain’s qi refinement could draw it down.
• Song Ankang recognized that the Human Race’s Divine Formation Group and Furi Mountain’s surprise defeat had let him enslave the Half-step True Immortal, easing the threat from the Merman Race.
• Song Ankang accepted Furi Mountain’s Nine Dragon Divine Fire Pearls and other treasures, expanding his collection of Seventh-Rank Divine Artifacts and strengthening his defenses.
• Song Ankang learned that Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing wanted to discuss a matter concerning Kyoto’s survival, so he agreed to meet them.
• Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing bowed to Song Ankang atop a tower in central Kyoto and greeted him as the Nine Peaks Sword God.

Song Ankang agreed to guard Kyoto against an alliance of Great God-level demonic creatures and ghosts seeking to seize the divine artifacts in the Secret Treasury. He arrived at the ruined Imperial City, where the imperial clan and court welcomed him as their protector.

• Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing told Song Ankang that ten Great God-level enemies near Taian City planned to attack Kyoto and might recruit more allies.
• Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing asked Song Ankang to defend Kyoto, offering him access to the National Treasury and Secret Treasury, and Song Ankang agreed.
• Song Ankang traveled with Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing to the Imperial City to guard Kyoto and assess the damaged Divine Formation Group.
• Imperial clan members rebuilding the ruined Imperial City knelt to greet Song Ankang when he arrived in his Nine Dragon Robe.
• Emperor of Xia Kingdom Song Fenghua and the court welcomed Song Ankang and thanked him for saving Kyoto.

Song Ankang inspected Nine Peaks Palace, the Divine Artifact Secret Treasury, and Kyoto’s Divine Formation Group after agreeing to guard the Imperial City. He learned that many of the treasury’s divine artifacts had been traded away and began preparing to wield the city’s defenses.

• Song Fenghua showed Song Ankang the completed Nine Peaks Palace, then left Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing to guide him.
• Song Ankang inspected the Secret Treasury and found a breach left by Furi Mountain, along with far fewer divine artifacts than he had expected.
• Zhang Xin Fang revealed that the Human Race traded divine artifacts with distant Demonic Creatures and Ghosts to replenish its supplies.
• Zhang Xin Fang explained that repairs to the Secret Treasury and its Divine Formations were underway, while the National Treasury’s guardian recovered from severe injuries and the Secret Treasury’s guardian had been slain by Furi Mountain.
• Song Ankang examined the core of Kyoto’s Divine Formation Group, and Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing offered to help him learn to use its defenses.

Song Ankang mastered control of Kyoto's Divine Formation Group and demonstrated its immense power. He used its surveillance formation to uncover hidden Demonic Creatures and Ghosts, then bound them with another formation.

• Song Ankang told Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing he already knew how to control Kyoto's Divine Formation Group and revealed he was a Seventh-Rank Low-Grade Divine Formation Master.
• Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing brought in the formation master responsible for maintaining Kyoto's defenses, who helped Song Ankang deepen his understanding of the formation group.
• Song Ankang gained control of Kyoto's Divine Formation Group and realized he could unleash around ninety percent of its power, enough to challenge Sixth Grade True Immortals.
• Song Ankang activated the Surveillance Heavenly Eye through the formation group and detected Demonic Creatures and Ghosts hidden throughout Kyoto.
• Song Ankang used Ten Thousand Silk Ribbons to ensnare the hidden creatures, including several Seventh-Rank Low-Grade and two Seventh-Rank Mid-Grade Demonic Creatures and Ghosts.

Song Ankang used Kyoto's Divine Formation Group to expose disguised Demonic Creatures and Ghosts throughout the city and capture them in its killing formations. Kyoto's residents learned that the Nine Peaks Sword God was protecting them and cheered his deeds.

• Lu Weijun watched in horror as the woman posing as his wife, Liu Juan, was exposed as an eighth-rank Pig Demon and captured by the formation.
• Fish Demons plotting to sabotage Kyoto's Divine Formation Group were bound and dragged away before they could finish their plans.
• Across Kyoto, disguised Demonic Creatures and Ghosts were forced to reveal their true forms and captured by the formation.
• Zhang Xin Fang, Wang Xin Jing, Song Fenghua, and the others saw Song Ankang control Kyoto's Divine Formation Group and praised his ability to find hidden enemies.
• The Imperial Court informed frightened residents that the Nine Peaks Sword God was cleansing Kyoto of demons, and the residents cheered and thanked him.

Song Ankang used Kyoto’s Divine Formation Group to uncover and destroy most of the Demonic Creatures and Ghosts hidden in the city, greatly improving its safety. Song Xin Xin visited him with Soul Cleansing Tea, hoping to get close to him and explore the possibility of marriage after the Tang Family Old Ancestor rejected her.

• Song Ankang found and eliminated tens of thousands of Demonic Creatures and Ghosts in Kyoto, though some escaped detection.
• Kyoto’s residents became much safer, and daily casualties fell to less than a tenth of their previous level.
• Song Ankang returned to the Nine Peaks Divine Palace, where Song Xin Xin brought him Soul Cleansing Tea.
• Song Ankang tasted the tea and felt its power cleanse his True Soul Sea.
• Song Xin Xin reflected that she had agreed to marry the Tang Family Old Ancestor, who rejected her, and decided to approach Song Ankang instead.

Song Ankang kept cultivating while using Furi Mountain and his other servants to draw powerful monsters into a supposed alliance against Kyoto. The Treasure Snatching Alliance gathered twenty-three members, more than half secretly serving Song Ankang, and Furi Mountain led them toward an attack on Kyoto.

• Song Ankang continued cultivating in the Nine Peaks Divine Palace while Song Xin Xin brought him Soul Cleansing Tea and cared for him.
• Ten foreign seventh-rank upper-tier Demonic Creatures and Ghosts arrived near Kyoto, contacted Furi Mountain, and sought allies for an assault on the city.
• Song Ankang instructed Furi Mountain and his divine servants to accept the alliance proposal and help lure the cautious enemies into action.
• Silent Mountain Ridge emerged and joined the Treasure Snatching Alliance, bringing its membership to twenty-three, including twelve of Song Ankang's divine servants.
• Furi Mountain used a Formation Breaking Eye talisman to claim it had found weaknesses in Kyoto's Divine Formation Group, and the alliance members grew excited about plundering the city's treasures.

Song Ankang and his informants lured a group of Demonic Creatures and Ghosts into a trap at the Secret Treasury of divine artifacts and enslaved them. Silent Mountain Ridge was captured last, leaving the visitors to realize that most of their allies had betrayed them.

• Furi Mountain led the Demonic Creatures and Ghosts through Kyoto to the Secret Treasury of divine artifacts while the visiting creatures praised him and the informants concealed their doubts.
• The group entered the treasury and was engulfed by Heaven and Earth Reversing Smoke, after which the twelve informants attacked the visitors and Song Ankang used Imperial Orders to enslave four of them.
• A second wave of attacks broke through the true-soul defenses of four more visitors, while Silent Mountain Ridge escaped the treasury and the last two visitors remained trapped in the smoke.
• Song Ankang and his allies trapped Silent Mountain Ridge with Demon Cage and overwhelmed it with their combined attacks until it became Song Ankang's divine servant.
• Silent Mountain Ridge saw the enslaved visitors and realized that more than half of its supposed allies had been Human Race infiltrators.